Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods(A)—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.(B)

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Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

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Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

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He sacrificed and burned incense(A) on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.(B)

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He offered sacrifices and burned incense(A) at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.(B)

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And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,(A) on the hills, and under every green tree.

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He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree,(A)
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?(B)

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You burn with lust among the oaks(A)
    and under every spreading tree;(B)
you sacrifice your children(C) in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.

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Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

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20 For long ago I[a] broke your yoke;(A)
I[b] tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree(B)
you lay down like a prostitute.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:20 LXX reads you
  2. 2:20 LXX reads you

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(A)
    and tore off your bonds;(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(C)
Indeed, on every high hill(D)
    and under every spreading tree(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(F)

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20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

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Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.(A)

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

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13 Only acknowledge your guilt(A)
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.(B)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree(C)
and have not obeyed me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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13 Only acknowledge(A) your guilt—
    you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods(B)
    under every spreading tree,(C)
    and have not obeyed(D) me,’”
declares the Lord.

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13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

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47 and say to the forest there, ‘Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

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47 Say to the southern forest:(A) ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume(B) all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north(C) will be scorched by it.(D)

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47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

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